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Spring Holder for Wagon Seat. No. 99,448. Patented Feb. 1, 1870'.

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JAMES A. LEFORGEE", or DECATUR, ILLINOIS. 1;

Letters Patent No. 99,448, dated Felmcwry 1, 1810.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING-HOLDERSPOR wAGON-SEKTS The schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Figure l is a perspective view ofa wagon-seat, with the self-supporting spring-holder attached.

l igure 2 is a top plan of the holder, showing the dowel-holes in the ends of the springs, and the manner of fastening the whole to the bottom of the seat.

Figure 3 is a bot-tom plan of holder.

Figure is an elevation of holder, showing the dowel in the same, and the manner of preserving the springs in their places.

General Description. 7 In fig. 1, the seat A is'fastenedto the holder B, by

means of bolts passing through the holes 0 0 c c, as

shown in figs. 2 and 3.

In fig. 2 are shown the dowel-holes D D D D, in, the ends of the springs, which fit over the four corre-v spondingdowels, one of which is shown in fig. 4, as E.

In fig 4 is shown one of the dowels, E, by which the springs are held in their places, their ends, at the same time, abutting on each other, arid the endsof the springs being bevelled, so that when the holder is bolted on the seat, the springs cannot be displaced, as an additional precaution to prevent slipping, as shown in fig. 2.

, Claim. I claim, as my invention- The self-supporting spring-holder B, and the means" of fastening the springs in the same, by means of the dowel E, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

JAMES A. LEFORGEE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES P. HoUsuM, J ESSE Lnnonenn. 

